Touching Base

Just a quick note for those of you from class who were under the weather last week. We took up chapter 9 about issues of gender. Rosemary did a lovely job of working us through the chapter. We have only two classes left! Hard to imagine!

If you are interested in reading A Mathematician's Lament, please email me and I will get it to you.

See you on Thursday, and if you have any questions, drop me a line.

Thanks!

Tonight's Class

Hi everyone. Looking forward to this evening's class as we take up some of the issues of gender and mathematics education.

Grade 1/2 Class Blog

In class I mentioned a grade one/two class at University School in Calgary, Alberta. This is a public school that I have visited and I love that the children are blogging their daily class activities. This is a great chance for you to see what children are doing daily in a class that in inquiry based. They mention their mathematics work frequently in their postings.

Here is the link to their blog. If you wish to contact one of the teachers to ask about the children's work, please let me know in our next class.

Enjoy!

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that our next class is November 19th.

Dr. Elaine Simmt from the University of Alberta has written the following article, Citizenship Education in the Context of School Mathematics which I believe you will find interesting. Perhaps we can discuss it the next time we are together.

Get healthy. Stay healthy!

Nel Noddings

Hi everyone. This evening in class I wish to bring another scholar's work to your attention. You may have come across Nel Noddings' writings in prior courses. We will look at some of her work in general, but focus in on her work dealing with mathematics education.

See you later today.

Interesting article, considering our work

I came across this last year....

Almost half of England's schools are not teaching mathematics well enough, putting too much emphasis on "teaching to the test", inspectors have said.

Ofsted said pupils were taught to pass exams and results had improved, but understanding of the subject had not.

Read the rest of this article from the BBC here....

Making Progress

Hi all.

I want to thank Sharon and Michelle for doing fine work of taking us through chapters four and five in our text. This evening Scott will lead our group discussion of chapter six. If there is time, I would like if we could share some of our blog postings with one another. (just using the room technology - nothing fancy or time consuming).

See you this evening!